In only a few days it will be Halloween weekend. A good time for nation leaders like yourself to kick back and
relax, contemplating what the future for you and your nation may bring. That budget for next year has to be
finalized soon. But you have it all under control, don't you? That's what you'd think, if it wasn't for those
pesky Zombies which tend to crawl out of the local graveyard each Halloween,
like last year... And this halloween as well, a zombie apocalypse
is expected to befall the nations of NationStates.

Zombie apocalypse begins in:

Oracles have predicted that this years onslaught will be a bit more infectious, with stronger zombies. That
doesn't bode well! Still, there's hope you can do better than before,
especially if you're the kind of ruler who can plausibly proclaim afterwards you really did intend to have fewer
survivors this time around.

What You Need to Know

The zombie apocalypse will begin
2 years 140 days ago.

It will run for 36 hours, ending
2 years 139 days ago.

As before, you will have three options: attempt to exterminate zombies with
military force, try to research a cure, or join forces with the zombies.

Extermination converts zombies into dead citizens, posing no further risk to the uninfected.

Researching a cure slowly reduces your region's infection rate, and can even convert zombies into survivors.

Embracing the zombie hordes increases your region's infection rate. If a region contains many nations with
high numbers of zombies, all resident nations will become infected quicker.

The extermination and research options become ineffective if you wait until the brains of your military and
scientific experts have mostly been eaten.

During the zombie apocalypse, Founders and Delegates can close the region's borders at no Influence cost.
A special Z-Day Border Control feature will be available to facilitate this.

May good fortune shine upon your nation... you'll need it!

Update!
As before, there's a Z-Day Tally Board. The good news is that the total number of
zombies is dropping. The bad news is that that's because they're falling down dead due to a lack of brains to eat.
And dead is dead, these poor civilians cannot be resurrected (at least not until this Halloween event is over).
While there are pockets of green with mostly uninfected, they typically hide behind border control, leaving the
rest of the NationStates world to fend for themselves...

Update2!
Despite the more infectuous and stronger zombies, the NationStates world managed to handle the zombie apocalypse
better than last time around. 24.4% versus 21.7%. Quite the improvement! Notable is that both
The Pacific and The West Pacific
managed to get the hordes under control despite their status as Feeder regions. Doing so required cooperation among
many many nations. Congratulations! One cannot say that it has been a success overall though, as the over 261 trillion
dead can attest. Or, well, they can't...

Thank you all for participating in the event, we hope it has been fun regardless of your personal results. As you can
see all populations have been restored to normal, but the Z-day results for your region and nation are still available
with little "[+] Z-Day" links on the region and nation pages.

"Leader... Leader... do not... do not underestimate the powers of the Zombies or suffer your predecessor's fate you will."